An exhibit on display in Portland gives people an up-close and personal look at human anatomy.The Body Worlds exhibit is being featured at the new Portland Science Center on Commercial Street."Body Worlds is the most popular museum exhibition in the world. Over 50 million people have seen this exhibition. and it had never been to Maine," Joe Gold, of the Portland Science Center, said.Specimens of human bodies, created by a process called plastination, show the details of the human body inside and out.Plastination is a process that preserves the body for educational and instructional purposes.The exhibit also shows the difference between a healthy body and one that may be diseased with cancer."You see healthy organs and diseased ones in comparison so you can understand what cancer is, arteriosclerosis is, what smoking does to your body. All these things you hear about nowadays so often, but as a lay person hardly have a chance to understand what it is," Body Worlds curator Angelina Whalley said.The Body Worlds exhibit officially opens to the public in Portland on Friday.

PORTLAND, Maine —

An exhibit on display in Portland gives people an up-close and personal look at human anatomy.

The Body Worlds exhibit is being featured at the new Portland Science Center on Commercial Street.

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"Body Worlds is the most popular museum exhibition in the world. Over 50 million people have seen this exhibition. and it had never been to Maine," Joe Gold, of the Portland Science Center, said.

Specimens of human bodies, created by a process called plastination, show the details of the human body inside and out.

Plastination is a process that preserves the body for educational and instructional purposes.

The exhibit also shows the difference between a healthy body and one that may be diseased with cancer.

"You see healthy organs and diseased ones in comparison so you can understand what cancer is, arteriosclerosis is, what smoking does to your body. All these things you hear about nowadays so often, but as a lay person hardly have a chance to understand what it is," Body Worlds curator Angelina Whalley said.

The Body Worlds exhibit officially opens to the public in Portland on Friday.